On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 11:17 +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:55:34 -0400 > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > > Kaj Persson wrote: > > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the > > > Pulseaudio is > > > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. > > > Which > > > is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting > > > Alsa be > > > the one and only audio system? Are there any serious > > > disadvantages > > > doing so? > > > > There is one serious disadvantage: Firefox doesn't support audio > > in any other way except PulseAudio. > > is that actually true? Here I can watch videos on yt or vimeo for > example > in firefox with sound perfectly intact without pulseaudio installed. > In which situations does sound in ff not work?
Hmm, I just uninstalled PulseAudio and Firefox audio still works, so I guess Debian are still enabling ALSA in their builds. As others have pointed out, this is likely to not be the case in the long run. Think I may have installed PulseAudio as an effort to get Google Hangouts video chat working in the Chromium browser. Just tried that and with ALSA, I can't seem to get it to use headphones even when they are selected explicitly by name. -- Tixy